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Back Cover: Object Transportation System Mimicking the Cilia of Paramecium aurelia Making Use of the Light‐Controllable Crystal Bending Behavior of a Photochromic Diarylethene (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 38/2019)
Author(s) -
Nishimura Ryo,
Fujimoto Ayako,
Yasuda Nobuhiro,
Morimoto Masakazu,
Nagasaka Tatsuhiro,
Sotome Hikaru,
Ito Syoji,
Miyasaka Hiroshi,
Yokojima Satoshi,
Nakamura Shinichiro,
Feringa Ben L.,
Uchida Kingo
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201909199
Subject(s) - diarylethene , photochromism , bending , materials science , polystyrene , paramecium aurelia , spring (device) , photochemistry , optoelectronics , optics , nanotechnology , chemistry , composite material , paramecium , physics , polymer , mechanical engineering , engineering , biochemistry
The cilia of Paramecium aurelia were the inspiration for the object transportation system described by R. Nishimura, K. Uchida and co‐workers in their Communication on page 13308 ff. Arrays of needle‐shaped crystals of a photochromic diarylethene derivative bend away from incident UV light. By controlling the position of the irradiation and the direction of the incident UV light, the movement of a polystyrene bead on an assembly of crystals can be directed through the photoinduced bending of the crystals.